Bag-holder.



No. 883.013. I PATENTED 0019, 1906.

- J M.- WELBOURN.

BAG HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25, 1905.

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'JOSIAH M. WVELBOURN, OF EDISON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ERNEST R. POWELL, OF EDISON, OHIO.

BAG-HOLDER.

. s pecification of Letters Patent.

rammed Oct. 9, 1966.

Application filed September 25,1905. Serial Ne- 279,988.

To all whom, it may concern: 6

Be it known that I, J OSIAH M. 'WELBoURN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Edison, in the county of Morrow and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in what may be termed bag-holders, more especially for hoppers. 1 It has for its object to provide for readily securing and releasing the bag to and from a hopper when it may be required to fill the former with grain, for instance, and to accomplish this in a simple,=expeditious, and effective way.

To these ends said invention consists of certain structural features substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and particularly I pointed out by the claims.

V In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevationthereof, showing the initial position of the parts. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same'with the bag in place. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section produced through Fig. 2 on line A B. Fig. 4 is a detached perspective view of a cam-ended gripping or holding device for the bag or sack when being filled. Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view of a cooperating gripping lever or device. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section taken in a line just above the ratchet-andpawl holding contrivance regardless of the hopper. Fig. 7 is a like section produced just below said contrivance, also omitting the hopper.

In the drawings, 1 is a hopper of usual construction, into which the grain may be shoveled when a sack or bag is attached thereto in filling the latter with grain, for example. Said hopper has attached. thereto a preferably bent metal bracket or hanger 2, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, the upper and lower ends thereto having keyholeslots 2 therein to receive headed projections or screws, which may be suitably secured and project from a movable truck or stand or from a wall or a post or other convenient means of support, according to where its use be needed. Suitably secured to and depending from the hopper near three corner edges of its bottom or delivery opening are angular bag holders or supports 3 having outstanding lower end portions.

Slightly beyond the other corner edge of the hopper delivery-opening is a vertical shaft 4, held rotatably in two brackets one arranged above the other, said brackets having their right-angled portions resting or standing flat against the frontside of the hopper and screwed or otherwise secured thereto. Said shaft has its preferably reduced upper end extending a short distance above the upper bracket 5 and'suita-bly retained in place by a laterally-extending pin 6, also serving in the capacity of a stop, as will be later explained. Said shaft has a downward-inclined lug or foot formation or cam 4 arranged eccentrically to the axis of said shaft for exerting a pulling as well as a gripping action upon the sack or bag, as presently made apparent.

One of the brackets, as 5, has a ratchet formation 5 the particular function of which will be noted hereinafter.

A cooperating gripping lever or device 7, preferably right-angled in general outline, has its horizontal plate-like portion or arm 7 pivotally connected at the inner left-hand corner thereof, as at 10, to an outstanding horizontal arm 4 of the shaft 4, about midway thereof, the pendent or vertical arm 7 of said dog or lever having engagement with the arm 4*, as will be seen later. Said-lever or device is equipped with a pawl or detent 8, having preferably integral therewith a knob or finger-piece 8*, by means of which both said lever or dog and said detent or pawl may be manipulated. The integral pawl and knob are inserted loosely upon and carried by an axis or bolt 9*, headed at one end, and which bolt, although held to the arm 7 of the lever or dog 7 by a nut screwed and clenched upon said bolt, serves, as indicated, as an axis or pivot for said pawl.

It will be noted that, the parts occupying the position indicated in Fig. 1, when the pin 6 will, by the engagement of its outer end with the upper bracket-attaching portion, serve as a stop for suitably controlling the initial position of the shaft of the gripping device 4, the mouth of the bag is caught upon the hooks or brackets 3, and that by placing a left-hand finger in the corresponding unsupported corner edge of the bag-mouth and suitably pulling upon the latter said mouth ortion is so disposed as to receive the lower inclined foot or cam 4 of the shaft or gripping device 4. Said corner edge of the mouth of the bag is now folded upon itself and suitably carried toward and in contact with the gripping device 4 with the finger still retaining its hold upon the bag-mouth and suitably drawing upon the bag so as to remove any slack therein, especially where it is held by the hooks or brackets 3. The knob 8 of the pawl 8 is now grasped so as to actuate the lever or device 7, the latter being moved tothe left hand, bringing its pendent arm 7 into contact with the folded left-hand corner portion of the bag-mouth, which will thus be caused to cooperate with the companion gripping device 4 to grip and secure the bag-mouth effectively in place, the point of impingement upon the latter device being effected at 4 The finger now being released'or removed from the bag-mouth, the cooperating gripping device 7 is still further moved in the same direction, which will cause the shaft of the gripping device 4 to turn, carrying with it and wrapping the doubled-up portion of the bag-mouth around it, thus tightening the same upon the brackets or hooks 3 and upon the foot or cam member 4. When the foot or cam member has arrived at a point in its movement when its axis will be at right angles to the front of the hopper, the tightening action upon the bag will have become effective and the turning of said knob 8 with the gripping device 7 will be, of course, discontinued. The knob is now turned upon its own axis without affecting the position of the gripping device 7, so as to dispose the pawl or detent 8 into engagement with the ratchet 5 which will thus old the gripping devices 4 and 7 all in effective position, the sack or bag now being ready to be filled by shoveling the grain or other material into the hopper, it passing from the latter into the bag or sack, as is plain.

It is noted that the bag-holder herein disclosed may be either a right or left hand one J in use; also, that it may be employed in connection with a chute, spout, or any receptacle through which grain or any material to be filled or run into bags or sacks may be passed or be utilized in any other practicable way.

I claim- 1. Abag or sack holder of the character described, comprising a hopper equipped with a foot-ended shaft having a fixed outstanding arm, a right-angled lever pivoted upon said arm, said lever having an independently-pivoted pawl or detent, and a ratchet or retaining means for said pawl.

2. A bag or sack holder of the character described, comprising a hopper equipped with-a foot-ended shaft having an integral outstanding arm, a right-angled lever pivoted upon said arm, and carrying an independently-pivoted pawl or detent arranged upon said lever, at its outer end, and a ratchet fixed in position and with-Which said pawl or detent is effective for engagement.

3. A bag or sack holder of the character described comprising a hopper with a foot-ended shaft having an integral outstanding arm, a right-angled lever pivoted at the inner end of its horizontal portion to said arm about at its mid-length, the vertical portion of said lever being arranged to coact 'with said shaft, near its lower end por tion, and a knobequipped pawl or detent having an independent axis of movement upon said lever, and a fixed ratchet for the retention of said pawl or detent in position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSIAH M. WELBOURN.

Witnesses:

I. T. MOLAIN, E. B. BLAIR. 

